The Transmedia Story Lab (TSL) has been awarded a $110,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a historical transmedia project that illustrates how a climate of structural violence has impacted the health and wellbeing of black adolescents on Chicago’s South Side.

Peggy Xu, AB’17, has been awarded the Lionel Pearson Fellowship from the Society for Classical Studies. The Pearson Fellowship is awarded annually to one student among nominees from Classics departments in the United States and Canada.

Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures awarded fellowship to pursue his research project on the simultaneous rise of legal procedure and realism in fourteenth-century Italian literature.